The Met’s 20th-century folly
by Hilton Kramer
On Lila Acheson Wallace Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Features
Vladimir Nabokov: ardor and art
by Fernanda Eberstadt
A review of Andrew Field’s biography of Vladimir Nabokov.
The Orsay experience
by James Lord
On the Musée d’Orsay.
What is “modern” poetry?
by Bruce Bawer
A review of A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins.
Poems
Most popular
Dance
Love American-style
by Eva Resnikova
On Peter Martins’s Les Petits Riens and Ecstatic Orange.
Music
Schnabel redivivus
by Samuel Lipman
On the pianist Artur Schnabel.
Art
Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers
by Dan Hofstadter
On Vincent van Gogh’s last pictures.
Jottings along the way
by Jed Perl
On the sculptors and artists.
Books
Rothward bound
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Counterlife by Philip Roth.
Indi(c)ting Bernard Berenson
by Michael M. Thomas
A review of Artful Partners by Colin Simpson.
Architecture redux
by Roger Kimball
A review of Architecture, Anyone? by Ada Louise Huxtable.
Tales from the other side
by Stephen Schwartz
A review of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq.
Notebook
Night comes to the Field Museum
by Victor M. Cassidy
On museum installations and technologies.